Part Two, Fishermans Arms Beer Fest, Easter 2018

Here are the second half of the beers I tried at The Fishermans Arms Beer Festival on Easter Sunday. See the blog before this one for an explanation.

Consett Ale Works, Consett English Pale Ale from England

3.8% gold in colour with a thin head, not much aroma, dry and hoppy taste.

Taylor Illingworth, Blast Furnace, from England

4.1% deep amber in colour with a good head, a nice aroma and a good bitter taste.

Three Brothers, The Experimentals #7 Vanilla Latte from England

4.8% amber in colour with a good head, supposed to be coffee in there but I didn't get any although it was a nice bitter.

Camerons, Sanctuary from England

3.8% gold in colour with a thin head, hoppy aroma and a dry hoppy taste.

Roundhill, Chocolate Orange Slug from England

4.8% dark brown in colour with a good head, a nice porter aroma and a slight orange porter taste.

Three Brothers, Under the Thumb from England

3.9% gold in colour with a nice head, a citrus aroma and a bitter citrus flowery taste.

March trip to Durham, 2018

A few days after our trip to York, we went up to Durham for a couple of days and had quite a few beers there as well.

Camerons, Brown Dog from England

4.3% brown in colour with a good head, nice malt aroma and a brown malty taste.

Bone Machine, Skeleton Party from England

5.2% slightly cloudy yellow in colour with a thin head, hops in the aroma and the taste.

Wild Beer, Millionaire from England

4.7% black in colour with a nice head, a roast malt aroma and a slightly sweet roast malt taste.

Durham, White Gold from England

4,0% gold colour with a good head, citrus lemon aroma, dry refreshing grapefruit taste.

J W Lees, Game On from England

4.2% amber in colour with a thin head, some fruit in the aroma and a caramel and malt taste.

Salopian, Bertza from England

5.5% black in colour with a good head, some chocolate in the aroma and a nice slightly sweet roast malt taste

March trip to York, One, 2018

For my birthday, we had a few days in York (not unusual) and had a few new draft beers, although on the first day I had beers I have had before, they had just changed the labels. So I will start on the second day of our trip away and to fit it all in, I have also had to split the drinks from this trip into two parts.

Another thing is that I did not bother taking my camera out with me, so all of the photos are taken with my phone.

Part One

Camerons, Black Forest Gateaux from England

5.5% black in colour with a nice head, it had a nice stout and fruit aroma and a very nice slightly sweet fruity stout taste.

Some stouts I have had over the last few weeks have been wonderful and nothing like the stout that most people know, Guinness, witch has put me off stouts for years.

Adnems, Old Ale from England

4.1% deep amber in colour with a nice head, slightly fruity aroma and bitter with a hint of chocolate taste.

Rat, White Rat from England

4.0% pail gold in colour with a thin head, a citrus hop aroma and a very similar taste

Evan Evans, Grand Cru from Wales

4.4% gold in colour with a nice head, not much aroma and the taste was slightly malt.

Ossett, Treacle Stout from England

5.0% black in colour with a good head, a deep caramel and malt aroma, with a roasted malt taste.

Oakham, Attila from England

7.5% gold in colour with a good head, hop and fruit aroma and a fruity taste.

Favorites

Feeling a lot better today but as there may not be any new photos and reviews for a day or two, I thought I would choose a few of my favorites (either by taste or label) and post them as a stopgap.

First one has to be, Camerons, Strongarm, (Hartlepool) England.
4.0% ruby red colour with a very good head, fruity malt aroma, fruity caramel bitter taste, also good in bottles. My hometown beer and as with hometown beers you either love them or hate them, I love Strongarm.
Nowadays, searching for new beer all the time, I do not always get to drink the beers I particularly like, so it is rarely that I get to drink Strongarm.

Camerons - the lion roars again  tells the story of the brewery over the last few years and the changes in ownership. Personally I am not sure closing one brewery to save another brewery was a good thing to do.